Study shows MMOs help make friends ... and lovers

•40% of people discussed sensitive issues with online friends rather than real-life friends.-Because you can always trust in strangers, well I guess I mean they don’t know you also they don’t seem to care.

•30% were attracted to another player-I wonder if they know that sexy hot elf woman is really a Fat guy in a greasy T-shirt eating Chetos.

•Women were more likely than males to be attracted to other players ... and more likely to date them-Wait Woman play MMOs?, man they must be ugly.

•Women said "therapeutic refreshment" was their main reason for playing, where men did it for "curiosity, astonishment and interest."-Is just a Fucking Videogame get over it.

•1 in 5 believe MMORPGs have a negative impact if their partner doesn't play. Over two-thirds said it was a positive experience if their partner did play-Whenever a married couple plays WOW a Baby dies.

•50% says World of Warcraft is the MMO of choice-Poor Guildwars.

I had an online girlfriend.
...when I was 14 years old.

Yeah, you make friends on MMO's... until you leave for a couple of months to focus on your college work and by the time you're back they've forgotten about you and you keep messaging and messaging but they don't write back and change to horde characters in a different guild because there's no one left in your old one and nobody wants another warrior in their guild, especially not a gnome one and is this really worth the nagging you get from girlfriend about it? I don't think so.

Or so I've heard.

I find this pretty sad =/

"Women said "therapeutic refreshment" was their main reason for playing, where men did it for "curiosity, astonishment and interest.""

Sounds like two sides of the same coin to me. Curiosity, astonishment and interest ARE therapeutically refreshing.

I made friends with a Krazy grrl on Xbox Live. After a a week of playing Live games together, she got rather comfortable with her "verbage" (flirting) and I called her on it. She wanted to meet up. So I asked her if she had her Parent's permission...she dropped me from her friend's list like a rock. (Turns out she was 20yrs old, and cute...but using her bf's account. Yeah..the internet is full of trustworthy people...uh huh).

Hey radiccon is not cool to criticize other people post without a good reason.

My old boss recently got divorced because his wife met someone else from playing WOW. SHe was a bitchy fat slob anyway.

It also causes people to forget about the friends they had before they played MMOs and stop doing anything outside of the gameworld because they have a raid scheduled every night.

What happend with the old fashioned play for fun?
I play gild wars with people who don´t speak english, germans and frenchs and we play for win, for have fun not for any other reason.
That´s why I leave second life I can not get a job for be a nob, not a house and people just want to made friends.

100% of people need to get out more.

If you fall in love with someone over an MMO, people are legally allowed to make fun of you.

I think it's even in the Bible.